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- We are:
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No person under the age of 18 years may use Our Website or Services. If you are under 18, please ask an adult for help with your purchase.
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- We cannot guarantee that every Service advertised on Our Website is available. All reasonable steps are taken to ensure that the Services, Our Website and servers are available at all time. The Services, Our Website or servers may be unavailable during scheduled maintenance or backups, or when unexpected issues occur. We will not be liable for any loss or inconvenience caused by any unavailability of the Services, Our Website or servers.
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- Our Website contains links to other Internet websites outside our power and control. You acknowledge and agree that we shall not be liable in any way for the content of any such linked website, nor for any loss or damage arising from your use of any such website.
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- We are not liable in any circumstances for special, indirect or consequential loss or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, loss of data or loss of revenues or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with your use of Our Website or the purchase of Services.
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- We are not liable in any circumstances for any injury, damage or consequential loss whatsoever associated with unwise, inappropriate or illegal use of Our Website, services or apps.
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- In the event of a dispute arising out of or in connection with these terms or any contract between you and us, then you agree to attempt to settle the dispute by engaging in good faith with us in a process of mediation before commencing arbitration or litigation.
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- We are not liable for any breach of our obligations resulting from causes beyond our reasonable control including strikes of our own employees.
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- This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Western Australia.


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Just how manly do you think a pink haired gnome could be? Personally I never thought of gnomes as being the epitome of manly, but this one certainly feels that he is! In this cute video submitted by Seraya, we're treated to dancing Night Elves (surprise, eh?) a human wife who knows just what she wants, and the gnomish husband who sings his manly song telling us all about who rules the roost in his family.
Having never listened to the Bob & Tom (radio) show before, the song was new to me. Hopefully if there are more silly songs from that show available, this machinima creator will create some more videos. Once you do, send them our way so we can all enjoy them!


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Tagged: Troy Glaus
The Draft
My awesome fantasy team, The Green Sox in the MLBloggers fantasy league is set. My rotation and lineups are nice but my bench and relief pitchers are not so hot. I had to leave before I could draft my bench/ relievers so I guess I shouldn't be complaining.
Braves World draft Prince Fielder with the first pick which I though was very interesting. My first two picks were my keepers, Tim Lincecum and Ryan Howard. With my third I was about to draft Mark Reynolds but I had some computer issues and it drafted a former Red Sox left fielder who's last name is three letters. Ya you probably thought I ment Manny.
In the fourth I was going to pick either Javier Vazquez, Chone Figgins, or Josh Johnson. In the end I chose Josh Johnson to go with Tim Lincecum. Then in the fifth I picked Billy Buttler, the first baseman for the Royals who was on my team last year.
With the 119th pick I was trying to get someone at DH. I didn't end up putting him there but I picked Jason Kubel as my right fielder.Then in the seventh I got J.D. Drew's younger brother Stephen Drew as my starting shortstop.
In the eighth I got someone on my team last year. I believe he was a steal for an eighth round pick, On the Boston Red Sox, number 34 . . . DAVID 'BIG PAPI' ORTIZ! Now you see why I moved Kubel from DH to right. I think Papi will regain Papi form and hit 35-40 home runs and drive in 100 plus.
In round nine I got the former best prospect in the Red Sox, the no-hit kid, Clay Buchholz who is going to win the fifth spot (sorry Wakefield) but is the third man in my rotation. In the tenth I got former Padre Kevin Kooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuzzzzzzzmanoff. I will probably keep him on my roster but I would like Adrian Beltre or Mark Reynolds or even Troy Glaus.
Then in the eleventh and twelfth I drafted a pair of Cubs teammates, Geovany Soto and Marlon Byrd. I always though that Byrd should be playing backup but then when I really looked into his stats I wanted him.
In the unlucky 13th round I got Dice-K who I think will come back with his 2008 form, when he almost won the Cy Young. In the 14th I drafted a guy who might start the season on the DL, Freddy Sanchez. Sanchez though will do better this year since A.) he is out of Pittsburgh and B.) he is playing with the Giants.
In the 15th round my friend came over and since he is an Indians fan I drafted Matt LaPorta who I might use as trade bait. In the 16th I drafted another guy on my team last year (who helped me out by hitting two grand slams in a game), Josh Willingham.
In the 17th I drafted yet another guy I drafted the year before, Justin Duchscherer. Only difference is that last year he was not healthy, this year though he is and I can put him under starter, reliever, or pitcher.
In the the 18th I drafted speedster, Carlos Gomez. In the 19th I drafted my first reliever, Ryan Madson. Then in round 20 I drafted Nationals ace (you know you team is bad when your ace gets drafted in the 20th round), Jason Marquis.
In the 21 round I drafted another bad teams ace, and 2009 all-star Zach Duke. In round 22 I drafted someone ESPN suggested, Eric Young Jr. who will be one of my main stolen base guys.
In round 23 I got Nick Blackburn as my last starting pitcher. Then in round 24 I got Blue Jays shortstop Alex Gonzalez. In the 25th I got the Padres, Tony Gwynn Jr.
After that I had to go to the Rodeo which was AWESOME!!!! Something that was not awesome was who I got.
I set it up so I could get Hideki Okajima and Ramon Ramirez. I got them I got Chad Durblin, and Gabe Kapler after Okajima and Ramirez.
Then though I got Steve Pearce (1B), Greg Burke (RP), Adam Rosales (3B), Ryan Roberts (2B), Sean Green (RP), George Kottaras (C), Sergio Escalona (RP), Renyel Pinto (RP), and Jeff Stevens (RP)
I'll be honest the only guy I knew out of those is George Kottaras because he use to play for Boston but now plays for the Brew Crew. Ohh well thats what I get for not staying I guess.
I need a closer for sure and there are a few players I would like to have had but one things for sure I am winning it all!
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Innovation is one big struggle. Not being able to change habits within the organization. Being creative at the wrong moment. Frustrated by budget cuts. Confronted with a lack of entrepreuneurship. Putting pressure on people in operations who resist change. Taking the credits as team leader myself instead of praising the team.
Yes, I made a lot of mistakes as marketer, strategy consultant and innovation facilitator. The good news is that I learned a lot. That's why I love to share ten lessons how you can be an effective innovator in your organization.
1. Innovate together. As a young marketer I used the word 'I' way too much. Being responsible for a product category, I considered myself king of a small universe. You can get wonderful ideas on your own. But in an organization you can only innovate together. You need all the other departments to develop your product, to produce it, service it, sell it and bill it. That's why innovating in a team is more effective. The chance that a new-to-the-company innovation survives is much higher if it has a lot of fathers and mothers.
2. Choose the right moment. On continuous basis organizations develop and launch variations of present products or services. It's less risky. Most companies step into new markets or launch disruptive initiatives when they realize that present markets and products can't generate growth anymore. So be like a hunter. Who only shoots when he knows that one bullet is a sure kill. So for real innovation projects you better wait until the right moment of real urgency.
3. Facilitate. When the company appoints you as 'innovator' others have the tendency to sit back, because innovation is now your responsibility. Don't fall into this trap. Don't come up with new products, services or business models yourself because it will all stay YOUR initiatives. A much more effective role as central 'innovator' is to facilitate innovation. This means you help others in line functions with processes and resources to be more innovative themselves.
4. Discover Needs. Your innovative product or service requires a different behavior from your customer. They will change their behavior and/or internal processes (in BtB) only when your innovation solves a challenge or problem for them. That's why it's so important to identify customer dreams, needs and problems in the very early stages of your innovation process.
5. Use the Voice of the Customer. Once you've developed an innovative idea or prototype the question remains: is this a good idea or not? In your organization are a lot of persons resisting change. They will say no to anything. In my role as marketer in the food industry I learned to make use of the voice of the customer to get internal support. So test your ideas and prototypes in an early stage at customers. And use the favorable test result and enthusiast testimonials to get internal support.
6. Be innovative. Act Conservative. Your organization is less innovative than you. That's why you have a game-changing role. Your effectiveness will be dependent on the internal support you can create among the non-innovators. That's why it's wise to be innovative and act conservative. Present your innovation not as something really extraordinary but as the normal next thing to do. Your chances to convince the non-innovators will increase.
7. Be naughty. Innovation doesn't stop at the first no. That's the moment it really starts for you. You have got to be clever to let your innovation project survive all kinds of dramatic moments like budget cuts. So be prepared to be naughty. When the innovation project is officially stopped due to a budget cut, continue for example your work under another project. Well, you know all the tricks.
8. Connect decision makers. Innovation ist Chefsache", say the Germans. That's why you should involve 'the boss' from the start. Not in a steering committee on a distance. Invite Top Managers as team members and take them with you on your innovation expedition. In this way the decision makers can get new insights themselves. And when they are part of the process they will support the end result.
9. Do it fast. On average an Innovation project takes 18 months for new services and 36 months for a new product. Be sure to speed it up. You know when there's a takeover, a strategy change or another crises your innovation project will be at risk. So focus and deliver as fast as you can.
10. Be open. There's always a lot of secrecy around innovation in a company. In practice with al this secrecy you alienate the rest of the organization with a lot of negative consequences. If you have a clear and structured process and inform everyone on the progress without telling big secrets you maintain support with the people you need later on to implement your innovations. So be open.
I have developed a structured innovation method for the front end of innovation, based on my own lessons learned. Feel free to download the innovation expedition map of the FORTH method.
One more thing. Even with my ten tips, innovation remains a struggle. Don't fight it. Accept it and you will increase your effectiveness immediately.
Note : This article was originally published on http://www.gijsvanwulfen.com
Gijs van Wulfen
Gijs van Wulfen is a recognised authority and keynote speaker on innovation and Design Thinking. He was chosen as one of the first LinkedIn Influencers and as of 2017, 300.000 people across the globe are following his notably engaging, prolific and insightful posts. In 2016 Gijs came number 2 in the international Top 40 Innovation Bloggers. In 2017 his book 'The Innovation Maze' was elected 'Management Book of the Year'.


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Well, the weather has certainly an unpredictable master these last few weeks. From beautiful summerlike days to idyllic rainforest downpours to chilling winds and snatched clothing off the line, we've had anything and everything.
So it's likely soon you'll have a day to spare, and why not use it in a great read? Here's five brand new bestsellers we'd recommend, all available at your local library.


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TV Guide
In 1996, when my family got a modem and signed up for AOL, my hours of nightly screen time shifted from television to the computer. After leaving for college, I never had a television set in my home—at least not one that's good for anything more than playing DVDs—and for me television has become a prop associated with certain locations: the ambient CNN in airports, or the numbing luxury at my parents' house that allows me to surf an easily navigable set of discrete elements, rather than choosing what to view by picking keywords and clicking metonyms.
Antoine Catala feels roughly the same way about television, as I learned on a visit to his studio this summer, and "TV Show" his upcoming solo exhibition at 179 Canal, a new artist-run space in downtown New York, is about television's slow demise—a phenomenon felt acutely this year as broadcast signals were converted to digital, befuddling one of television's biggest audiences, the elderly. Catala's comic-strip paintings of screen stills, which he dashed off quickly with glances at the television, underscore television's identity as an industrial product, far slicker than anything one person can make alone and produced using templates. His translucent paintings on working television sets also highlight the conventions for arranging shots, as faces and settings of the broadcast form repetitious patterns around his overlaid additions. TV Blobs manipulate live feeds to make distorted, fluid three-dimensional graphics. Catala treats both the television set's physical mass and the broadcast stream as readymade sculptural material, positioning both form and content as artifacts of the industrial age in a world that's moving on to something else. "TV Show" opens tonight at 7:00pm.
Group Dynamics
"Quartet without Pyramid Scheme" does not, in fact, have anything to do with financial machinations, and the title of this experiment in sound installation and improvisation is a dry foil for how it actually unfolds at Brooklyn's Diapason gallery over four Saturdays in September. Jordan Paul, the organizer of the project, began it September 5 with a pair of parallel installations in Diapason's gallery and lounge spaces, both of which used the same set of samples—a water boiler, miked CD and DVD players, a malfunctioning audio cord—run through a MaxMSP patch that determined their placement and duration in each channel. A week later Reed Evan Rosenberg introduced some drama by adding the deep rumble of a laundromat to the array of household appliance sounds. But contrast was less a concern for Paul than a close fit as an ensemble, which is why he chose artists he had collaborated with before and requested they bring field recordings of ambient noise. While the work is declared a quartet from the start, it's not until the last week that all four artists will be present in the gallery, which suggests an understanding of time as being as static as space is ordinarily perceived—an approach supported by the use of sounds connected to locations, and then shuffling and layering them to further mask any hints of the linear temporal movement. As the artists come to remix the samples in Diapason's lounge each week, they retain equal shares in the quartet—unlike in a pyramid scheme—and rather than bringing a climax and collapse, the meeting of all four at the last session ought to turn out as a rearrangement of set elements, an improvisational structure that ...
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's "Levels of Nothingness" at the Guggenheim
When artist and curator Hilla Rebay hung Vasily Kandinsky's paintings at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, which she convinced her lover Solomon R. Guggenheim to open in the late 1920s, she created a sensual environment for them with colored walls, faint music, and perfumed air. It was an approximate construction of an inner, spiritual harmony unencumbered by reminders of nature, in keeping with the ideas of Kandinsky's influential tract "Concerning the Spiritual in Art." While multimedia updates of art from an older period risk becoming mere bells and whistles on a body of work that stands on its own merits, Kandinsky's intense interest in synaesthesia—and his exhibition history with Guggenheim's collection—make it seem like he might be sympathetic to opportunities for multiple sensory stimulation afforded by today's data processing technologies. Perhaps that's why Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum commissioned an immersive light-and-sound piece from Rafael Lozano-Hemmer to mark the opening of the museum's major Kandinsky retrospective, the first for the artist in more than twenty years. Levels of Nothingness, which Lozano-Hemmer developed in collaboration with philosopher Brian Massumi, takes its inspiration from Kandinsky's 1912 essay "Yellow Sound." The installation generates visuals from phonetic data produced by reading philosophical texts by Kandinsky and others. (At the performance, Isabella Rosselini will kick off the readings, and audience members will be encouraged to continue). Rather than translating one kind of information into another to spell out a neatly servable metaphor—as Lozano-Hemmer did, for example, with Pulse Park, which presented Madison Square Park as a living organism by animating it with lights activated by the heart rates of passers-by—Levels of Nothingness promises to be more meditative and fuzzy, suggesting the connection between thought and ...
Speaking in Third Person
MIT Press recently published Third Person, an essay collection that follows First Person and Second Person in a series exploring how new media has changed the roles of author and audience. Third Person declares its subject to be "vast narratives," which editors Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin define as cultural products that extend beyond the physical and temporal parameters usually associated with their medium. While most television detective shows devote one episode to one investigation, The Wire, for example, can stretch a case out over a season, and the continuity of characters and settings puts demands on a viewer's memory that other shows rarely make. If the Harry Potter series of books is considered the authoritative source of that fictional world even after the release of the films, Lucasfilm delegates storytelling duties for Star Wars among books, movies, and animated series, and each addition extends the fictional universe in new directions in time and space. Vast narratives can also be generative frameworks that allow for many reconfigurations of the characters and settings over several instantiations, as in computer role-playing games and their pencil-and-paper counterparts like Dungeons & Dragons.
Camera Ready
"You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive." Those are the words of Merce Cunningham, whose death this summer—a month after the passing of Pina Bausch—provoked a wave of public musing on the difficulties of dance's notation and preservation, as critics expressed a bleak resignation about the medium's supposed transience. So it's a fortunate coincidence that the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia is starting the new season with an exhibition that demonstrates what dance has "given back" to photography, film, and video. "Dance with Camera" encompasses fifty years of art—from classics like Eleanor Antin, Bruce Nauman, and Mike Kelley to emerging artists—and all the works are rooted in choreography and modernist approaches to movement. Several of the artists make work for both theaters and galleries, and their use of the camera builds on live performance rather than serving as a record of it. Choreographer Kelly Nipper considers motion's relation to stillness by bringing dancers to her photography studio to isolate moments, while Flora Wiegmann adapts dance phrases to places outside the theater and the camera's lens. Elad Lassry's 16mm films exploit the metaphoric potential of the dancer's disciplined severity, her unity of mind and body. These artists make their camera an active agent in the work, rather than a documentary device. Their concern isn't extending a dance's duration in memory, but expanding the capabilities of the camera through the associative and compositional possibilities of dance. The exhibition opens Friday and runs through ...


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19-03-2018 #1
Hi all :)
My name is Graham and I'm new to all things cnc,got a 3d printer I built from a kit though so cnc on a very small scale then!
I'm starting a build based on plans I bought from Joescnc website- now I know not everyone will like or agree with the build materials and I definitely would like to spend a lot more on the build .... the wife says no!
So in the whole it will come from the plans but I'm hoping maybe there will be some input along the way as well.
As I said it's based on plans that once bought gives access to the builders forum and has approx. 250 machines built or being constructed all based off of the plans- giving dxf files/templates for cutting various parts etc.
The plans suggest a welded steel box frame base ,but as I don't weld I opted for a timber base.
Constructed out of structural 18mm ply ready to take the aluminium rails when they arrive.
so a few pictures of things so far then...
As you can see I doubled up on the ply thickness and the box section rails really improved the stability and strength.
The rails fit together like mortice and tenon joints, the long sides are glued to the legs.
The side rails are 10ft long so I extended them on opposite sides at the ends.
The width is 5ft.
I again doubled the ply for the cross rails and screwed them in dry so take down is possible for relocation if needed.
so this is where I am at now-
The front rails are bolted with nylock nuts.
I also scooped the front rails to allow an 8x4 board to go between the legs for storage, still need to add some rails yet.
With a few sheets stored under there is should add some considerable weight.
The legs have screw adjusters on them for levelling.
So that's where I'm at now, I have some aluminium profile on order which I'm hoping will be with me soon.
19-03-2018 #2
I posted on another thread but I'll comment here as well.
Somewhere else I see you mention £3k. With that much you can get long way to building proper machine made from steel.
Yes, it would be basic to start off with because of low budget but you would have a good foundation that truly can be upgraded as you go along without wasting money.
For a fully finished machine with decent quality components and few bells whistle you'll need about £4-5K but this will give you a machine that will last for years even in small production enviroment but more importantly be reliable and repeatable/accurate.
You will regret building this machine at some point that's for sure.
26-03-2018 #3
So after much thought ,I have decided to go with the original plans- which are V bearings and Rack and pinion.
This is purely a cost thing for me - the entire build should come in at under £2k. I can understand peoples views on linear rails and ball screws but as pointed out by some ,it would take the build cost to nearer £4k which I am not prepared to spend.
Also the fact that this is an 8 x 4 machine for that price I can't see me having any 'Regrets' building it! like I have said before I would rather have a cheaper machine running than no machine at all.
If there is some upkeep to maintain performance then so be it.
Speaking to one of the guys who have built this he said he would build it again in a heartbeat.... but no need as its still running 7 years later ,now upgraded to aluminium carriages but still running V rails.
So bearings are ordered and aluminium profiles and angle iron are in this week :)
30-03-2018 #4
05-04-2018 #5
Hello fellow adventurous newb,
I'm doing the same thing as you it seems (well it is a CNC forum).
I wish i had more input for you , to help you on your way.
I'm looking at purchasing Linear rails as i've used them before and the seem to give a better result (V Bearings on my Laser CNC work ok thou).
My input is i've searched and searched and think i've found a supplier of rails which don't cost the earth.
How much is the rack and pinion costing you??
05-04-2018 #6
I just couldn't justify the cost for linear rails I'm afraid :(
I have been looking at a UK supplier that is selling the rack MOD 1.0 at £74.99 for a 2m length pre drilled.
I'm hoping that's a fair price as when I google rack and pinion I get car steering racks a lot!
For the pinion drive i'm looking at a 3:1 drive plate module that I will probably order from cncrouter parts in the USA. No one over here seems to make them :( I think they are about £60 each+ postage and import tax.- I need 3
08-04-2018 #7
So I'm looking at motor/driver choices and yes while i'm after advice can I ask that you switch off the 'best possible solution 'head and use the 'I expect that will be suitable' head!
This is a kit for nema 23 4Nm with 48 psu instead of the 36v they offer with other kits.
I know I will need screened cables as well but is there anything glaringly obvious missing?
Sorry if it seems like i'm doing it all wrong but I'm loving my build so far as it's starting to take some shape :)
08-04-2018 #8
08-04-2018 #9
I won't give Bum advise so I'm not giving you a "just good enough" solution but will give you solution that is what's required for good machine.
Because your using R&P which is only 50-60% efficient compared to ball screws which are 90-95% couple this with linear rail system that's is even less efficient then you'll need extra power to deal with lower efficiency. Also because you'll be using ratio 3:1 then you'll want motors which spin little faster but still have torque higher up the RPM range and 50V drives with 48Vdc won't provide enough power. (Also 48V is too close to the Drives 50Vdc max so you risk blowing drives up)
Ideally, with R&P setup, esp one that isn't very efficient then you'd run Nema 34 motors with Mains voltage or higher Dc voltages around 100Vdc.
So if you must use Nema 23 motors then you want to be running them around 70Vdc with 80Vdc drives.
Also you want Unregulated PSU not Regulated Switch mode supply. Reason for this is that under de-acceleration the motors become dynamo's and dump the power back to the drives which then dump this back to the PSU (Back EMF) and if the PSU as protections built into it then will shut down which is bad news.
On Small slower machine with light gantrys then can sometimes get away with this but on large machines with heavy gantry traveling at higher feeds whcih routers tend to do then it will become a problem.
The PSU you want is Unregulated toroidal PSU which use capacitors that store energy and absorb any Back EMF. These are actually very easy to make and will work out cheaper than buying a large PSU, it also means you can tailor Voltage and Amps to your exact needs.
So the setup I suggest with nema 23 motors is this.
4Nm motors
80Vdc Digital drives running motors at 68-70Vdc.
Toroidal PSU transformer spec'd to output 68-70Vdc
With Nema 34 Motors:
4.5Nm Nema34
80Vac (100Vdc) Drives
Toroidal PSU transformer spec'd to output required.
Stay away from kits they are always compromised in some way.
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09-04-2018 #10
Appreciate the info:)
I can understand all you have said and will take it on board and not order the kit :)
so the steppers are fine ,will have to go with the 4Nm 23's as the mounting holes are already drilled.
An 80vdc board
I have no clue on building a toroidal PSU!! lol so would need a touch of help there!
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Jeff Gundlach's DoubleLine Capital LP has filed to launch a mutual fund seeking to outperform Robert Shiller's benchmark ShillerBarclays CAPE US Sector TR USD Index, which invests equally in the four most undervalued U.S. stock sectors based on their CAPE ratio and their price momentum over the past 12 months.
The DoubleLineShiller Enhanced CAPE fund will seek a higher return than its index, according to the SEC filing, and will use derivatives — swaps or futures contracts — possibly together with direct and bond investments, to try to generate long-term total returns that beat the index. Gundlach and Jeffrey Sherman will run the new fund. The use of derivatives will allow the fund to invest in a range of fixed-income securities with the majority of the fund's assets to boost returns.
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First pamphlet of the Sovereignty Commission shows Mississippi as the target for pressure groups and northern newspapers.
James Plemon (J.P.) Coleman
Ross Robert Barnett
John Bell Williams
William Lowe (Bill) Waller Sr.
The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: An Agency History
The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission was created in March 1956 by an act of the Mississippi Legislature. It came in the wake of the May 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka public school desegregation ruling by the U. S. Supreme Court. The court ruled that laws enforcing segregated schools were unconstitutional and called for desegregation of schools with all deliberate speed."
The Supreme Court ruling sent shock waves among people who believed in the separation of the races. Like other southern states in the United States, Mississippi responded to Brown with legislation to strengthen the legal walls of separation.
Agency powers
Shrouded in the rhetoric of state's rights, the act creating the Sovereignty Commission provided the agency with broad powers. The commission's objective was to do and perform any and all acts and things deemed necessary and proper to protect the sovereignty of the state of Mississippi, and her sister states from a perceived encroachment thereon by the Federal Government or any branch, department or agency thereof; to resist the usurpation of the rights and powers reserved to this state and our sister states by the Federal Government or any branch, department or agency thereof. To exercise this loosely defined objective, the commission was granted extensive investigative capabilities.
The governor of Mississippi was appointed ex-officio chairman (in 1956 the governor was J. P. Coleman). Ex-officio means a person serves by virtue of the office he or she holds. Other ex-officio members were the president of the Mississippi Senate as vice chairman, the state attorney general, and the Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives. In addition, members of the commission included three citizens appointed by the governor from each of the Mississippi Supreme Court districts; two members from the Senate, appointed by the president of the Senate; and three members from the House of Representatives, appointed by the Speaker. The governor, attorney general, and legislators served on the commission during their tenures in office. The three members appointed by the governor served for the duration of the governor's term.
The commission itself was a small agency with a staff of a director, public relations director, investigators, and clerical staff. In addition, throughout its existence the commission used both paid and unpaid informants to supplement its investigation team. The commission also used private detective agencies to conduct investigations.
As the state's official tax-funded agency to combat activities of the Civil Rights Movement, the commission performed many duties. Although varied, these tasks can be divided into three general functions: investigative, advisory, and public relations. For seventeen years, from 1956 to 1973, the commission spied on civil rights workers, acted as a clearinghouse for information on civil rights activities and legislation from around the nation, funneled money to pro-segregation causes, and distributed right-wing propaganda.
Coleman administration
While these core functions remained consistent throughout the life of the agency, the relative importance of each function and the execution of duties reflected not only the expertise of each director, but more importantly, the preference of the successive governors. Briefly, J. P. Coleman (1956-1960), the first governor to head the commission, favored the low-key approach through the public relations function. Above all, Coleman tried to cultivate an image of Mississippi in which race relations were good and citizens were law abiding. Consequently, the commission sought to put a lid on situations that might tarnish this image. Coleman did not allow the commission to channel money to the Citizens' Council, a grassroots pro-segregation movement.
Barnett administration
His successor, Governor Ross Barnett (1960-1964), expanded the investigative function of the commission. Commission investigators toured the state and wrote reports on civil rights activities of individuals and organizations, including scrutinizing reading material and libraries. The rumor mill and race baiters fed the commission, and anyone who appeared to transgress racial lines or espouse a vaguely liberal perspective was likely to be brought to its attention. Barnett's expanded role for the commission also included funding for the Citizens' Council.
Johnson administration
During the tenure of Governor Paul B.Johnson, Jr. (1964-1968) the commission promoted its public relations functions. Following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the commission proposed a long-range plan for an office in Washington to promote conservative viewpoints and policies in legislation. The commission also donated small amounts to African-American individuals and organizations sympathetic to segregation. For two years after his inauguration, Governor Johnson had not officially activated the commission by calling a meeting or appointing new members. The Mississippi Legislature in June 1966 included a provision in its reduced $200,000 appropriation that Governor Johnson had to officially activate the commission before any funding could be received. Accordingly, a meeting was called on August 8,1966, although Johnson did not attend.
At the meeting members approved a new policy defining the commission as a watch dog over subversive individuals and organizations that advocate civil disobedience; as a public relations agency for the state; and as an advisor for local communities on problems resulting from federal laws or court orders.
In reality, it was business as usual for commission investigators, who continued to track individuals and groups who challenged racial segregation. In addition, the commission served its advisory function by recommending ways to circumvent the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Williams administration
In contrast to Johnson, Governor John Bell Williams (1968-1972) was more attentive to the Sovereignty Commission. Williams not only authorized meetings but was usually in attendance. The new governor, interested in the commission's investigative function rather than public relations, appointed former FBI agent W. Webb Burke as director in September 1968, and neglected to fill the public relations position.
Subsequently, the focus of the commission became intelligence gathering. In a routine report, completed by all state agencies in 1971, Burke made no mention of public relations as a function of the commission, describing the purpose or function of the agency as conducting investigations into matters of interest to the public and which matters pertain to tax supported institutions.
[R]requests from state, county, and municipal officials in matters pertaining to possible violations in connection with civil rights activities, were honored, as were functions added to the agency since formation, such as investigations of campus student disturbances and use of drugs and sale of same on campuses of state operated schools. Reiterating these points in a May 1971 Times Picayune interview, Burke compared the commission to the House Un-American Activities Committee or the FBI.
Waller administration
Although the next governor, William Waller (1972-1976) authorized programs of the commission and appointed new members, he was absent from meetings. It was no longer politically expedient to support such an agency, and in April 1973, Waller vetoed its 1973 appropriation. At the last official Sovereignty Commission meeting on June 22, 1973, members voted to seal and transfer the agency's files to the secretary of state for safekeeping. Although members made plans for future meetings, the commission officially closed its doors June 30, 1973.
Agency dissolved
Although the commission ceased to function in 1973, the agency was not officially dissolved until 1977. In January 1977, Mississippi legislators introduced bills to abolish the commission and dispose of its records and equipment. After much heated debate, the legislature approved an act which abolished the commission and authorized its records be sealed at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History until July 1, 2027.
On March 4, 1977, the Office of the Secretary of State transferred the Sovereignty Commission records to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The department received the locked cabinets, sealed them with metal bands, and placed them in its vault.
While the records of the defunct Sovereignty Commission sat locked and sealed in the Department of Archives and History vault, legal battles began over their fate. Twenty-one years later, on March 17, 1998, the bulk of the papers were opened to the public. Subsequent releases on July 31, 2000, and January 18, 2001, completed the process. The public finally had access to the infamous files in electronic format at three computer workstations in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History library.The Mississippi Department of Archives and History put the Sovereignty Commission papers online in late 2002.
Posted September 2002
This article is condensed from Sarah Rowe-Sims's article in the Spring 1999 edition of The Journal of Mississippi History. Rowe-Sims, special projects officer in the archives and library division, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, was part of the team that processed the Sovereignty Commission records.
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The latest ship from Carnival Cruise Line, the Carnival Breeze, got its first taste of water last Friday, launching at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy.
The Breeze, a sister ship to the Carnial Dream and Carnival Magic, is set to debut in the Mediterranean in June 2012 before moving to the Port or Miami in November.
The launch of the Breeze followed the traditional coin ceremony in which a silver dollar was welded into place on the last deck of the ship. The practice dates back centuries to ensure good luck to the ship. After the ceremony, the ship's dry-dock construction home for the past year was flooded and the Breeze was floated out to its new home where construction will continue. Sea trials in the Adriatic Sea will take place in early 2012.
The 130,000-ton, 3,600-passenger vessel will be the cruise line's 24th ship in service after delivery next spring. It will be 101st ship sailed under the Carnival brand since the 1970s.
The Fincantieri shipyard has built 60 cruise ships since 1990, and built both the Magic, which debuted this year and the Dream, which debuted in 2009.
The Breeze will be similar to the Magic and Dream with the popular WaterWorks aqua park, SportSquare recreation complex with ropes courses, mini-golf and outdoor fitness area. The Lanai will be a wraparound promenade with whirlpools jutting out over the ship's sides.
The look of the Breeze will be decidedly Caribbean in style, as in island breezes and tropical sunsets, created by Germany-based Partner Ship Design, focusing on bright colors and pastel hues.
When it arrives in Miami, the ship will sail year-round six- and eight-day Caribbean cruises. The six-day sailings will visit Grand Turk, Ocho Rios, Jamaica and Nassau, The Bahamas.
The eight-day sailings will alternate between a southern Caribbean itinerary featuring Grand Turk, La Romana (Dominican Republic), Curacao and Aruba. An eastern Caribbean route will visit St. Thomas/St. John, Antigua, Tortola and Nassau.
The latest ship from Carnival Cruise Line, the Carnival Breeze, got its first taste of water last Friday, launching at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy.


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Joost, the compelling new on-demand P2P video service from the creators of Skype, has attracted considerable attention since the launch of its closed beta program. Last week, we offered 10,000 of our readers the opportunity to join in on the fun. I grabbed an invite myself so that I could put Joost to the test on the open-source Linux platform.
Unfortunately, the Joost client application is currently only natively supported on Windows and Mac OS X. This is a bit ironic, since the program itself heavily utilizes Mozilla's open-source cross-platform XulRunner runtime and many other open-source components. As usual, the open-source community has found some creative ways to make it work in the absence of official support. Instructions are now available in various places describing how to make Joost run on Ubuntu Linux with Wine, a Windows binary runtime layer for Linux.
Although Wine doesn't support Joost right out of the box, developers have produced a few patches that make it work. In order to apply those patches, users will have to compile Wine from scratch, which is a relatively arduous process. You can also find some unsupported packages with modified versions of Wine in various places, but it's generally not a good idea to use unsupported packages from an untrusted source. Instructions for patching, compiling, installing and configuring Wine for Joost can be found in the Ubuntu forums. Instructions are also available for a few other distributions as well.
There are several problems that users could potentially encounter along the way. Even after compiling and installing a patched version of Wine, I still wasn't able to make it work entirely. First, I got an error message telling me that Joost requires Windows XP. This problem can easily be fixed by changing the Windows Version value to Windows XP on the Applications tab of the winecfg utility. After I changed that, Joost would start and properly display its splash screen, but when the login interface showed up, the fonts were completely unreadable. This happens when default Windows fonts are not available. To resolve this problem, you have to install the default fonts from Windows, either by copying them from a Windows partition or by installing the msttcorefonts package on Ubuntu. Next, I got an error message claiming that my audio card couldn't be found. The instructions in the Ubuntu forum explain that you can resolve this problem by enabling the OSS driver and setting the Hardware Acceleration option to Emulation on the Audio tab of the winecfg utility.
After experimenting with a few other suggestions listed in the Troubleshooting section of the instructions in the Ubuntu forum, I got to the point where Joost would run in Wine, but with audio only. Video never appeared, and I just got a blank screen. This is apparently the result of a problem with Nvidia's proprietary graphics drivers. Some users have been able to get Joost working with complete audio and video support by by installing the latest release of the Nivida drivers. That's the point at which I gave up. I experimented with manually installing Nvidia drivers last year when I was working with Beryl, and after a few very nasty Xorg crashes, I decided that I would only use Ubuntu's packaged drivers in the future. Despite my reluctance, others are succeeding. A colleague of mine who already had Nvidia's beta drivers installed managed to get Joost running after doing the Wine patch. I got to see it in action on his computer, and even though he could only get it to run at 800x600, it still seemed to work pretty well. Some users who have gotten it to work are saying that it maxes out their CPU and that playback stutters a bit, but it isn't clear how widespread that problem is yet. According to a poll in the Ubuntu forums, about half of the people who have attempted to get Joost running in Wine have succeeded.
I also tried to get it to work in a Windows XP installation hosted in VMware, but didn't have much luck. Joost uses Direct3D, which isn't really officially supported in VMware yet. There is a simple hack that users can do to get accelerated 3D to work in VMware, but it's still very experimental. When I modified my Windows XP VMX file to enable 3D acceleration and then tried to run Joost, my whole screen turned black, and I had to hit the reset button on my computer. Needless to say, I don't recommend trying Joost in VMware.
Although the methods that people are using right now to get Joost working on Linux are very hackish, one should keep in mind that the Joost developers plan to officially release and support a native Linux build at some point in the future. Until then, Linux enthusiasts will likely continue working to simplify and document the process of getting the Windows version of Joost to run in Wine.


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The Other Andretti
When I watched John Andretti smash his Richard Petty-Dreyer & Reinbold entry into the turn one wall late Sunday afternoon, it occurred to me that this was just another chapter in a star-crossed racing career. John has been coming to the Speedway since his first appearance in 1988, when he did well to finish 21st in an underfunded Mike Curb entry. For whatever reason, he has not approached the success attained by his more famous cousin and uncle. Much like his father, Mario Andretti's twin-brother Aldo, John always toiled in the shadows of his relatives. The stars never quite seemed to align for him.
In 1990, Andretti teamed with Teo Fabi at the highly touted Porsche team in only their second year of competition. This effort sounded promising. The team was also spearheading March's return as a chassis builder. However, before the team turned a wheel in competition, the main principal, Al Holbert, lost his life in an airplane crash—leaving Derrick Walker in the reluctant position of picking up the pieces and running the team. The team was a major disappointment and both March and Porsche pulled out of CART by the end of the year.
Andretti landed on his feet before the 1991 season. He secured a plum ride with the newly formed Hall/VDS team, comprised of the legendary Jim Hall of Chaparral and famous engine builder and former driver Rudy Van Der Straten. They had snagged the prized Pennzoil sponsorship and on paper, the team sounded like a virtual who's who of racing. On the track, things started out great as John won in their initial outing at the season opener at Surfer's Paradise in Australia. From there, it was downhill for the next two years until John was released at the end of 1992. The team went on to underachieve with other name drivers such as Teo Fabi and Gil de Ferran, but Andretti was always made the scapegoat as to why the team underperformed.
The next year in 1993, found Andretti with no full-time ride in CART and only made the Indy 500 because his godfather, AJ Foyt, gave him a ride on the second weekend of qualifying. He jumped into the car with little practice and qualified 24th by putting up a speed which, had he been a first day qualifier, would have put him on the outside of the second row. He was in contention all day and finished 10th just behind Teo Fabi and the Hall/VDS car.
Later that year, Andretti even ran top-fuel dragsters with success—demonstrating his versatility. He could drive anything and just wanted to race. However, when he couldn't find a CART ride for 1994, Andretti made what I thought was a curious move by switching over to NASCAR. He again ran the Indianapolis 500 for AJ Foyt in 1994, posting another 10th place finish. Immediately after the race, Andretti climbed aboard a helicopter in order to catch a plane to Charlotte, NC to run the Coca-Cola 600 that evening. By doing so, he became the first driver to ever run both races on the same day. In later years, other drivers would do the "double" including Robby Gordon and Tony Stewart; but John Andretti was the first.
This began a strange odyssey for Andretti who drove for some pretty obscure NASCAR teams over the years. However, he won the 1997 Pepsi 400 driving for Cale Yarborough before joining Petty enterprises permanently in 1998. Andretti won at Martinsville in 1999, giving Richard Petty his final win as an owner. He was released by Petty in 2003, and again he became a NASCAR journeyman. All the while, his dreams of returning to the Speedway in an IndyCar seemed to be drifting further away.
Finally, when most had assumed he would never run in another Indianapolis 500, John Andretti returned in 2007…thirteen years since his last 500 start. It was not a spectacular return. He brought out the first yellow, as his mirror blew off and landed in the north end of the track. Later in the race, he crashed in a one car accident and ended in 30th position. More impressive, was his return in 2008. Rookie Jay Howard was attempting to qualify a second Marty Roth entry, but was having trouble getting it up to speed. On the morning of Pole Day, it was announced that John Andretti would replace Howard in the car. He qualified 21st and finished a strong 16th. He went on to have several good runs for Roth Racing in the 2008 season, before yielding again to Howard.
While still driving NASCAR, Andretti is back for this year's 500. Unfortunately, it is in an entry that may have difficulty finding its way into the field of thirty-three—even though there may be no more than thirty-four trying. Richard Petty has loaned his name to the effort, but is little more than a figurehead. The car is being prepared by Dreyer & Reinbold, which seems to be stretched a little thin at the moment. They are running four cars and only one, Davey Hamilton, is currently qualified.
John Andretti's career has always had me a little perplexed. He is an excellent driver that was never with a good team. I was always intrigued to see what he could do in a Penske or Ganassi car. He is a smart and savvy driver who, unlike his relatives, usually takes care of his equipment (Sunday's crash not withstanding). Why he hasn't gotten better rides over the years has always bewildered me. Unlike his uncle and cousins who are somewhat aloof and arrogant—John is fan-friendly, personable and very down-to earth. Plus, he can drive the wheels off of a racecar. His career has been stalled however, by one bad team after another.
John Andretti and his father, Aldo, seem to share the same fate. Due to some bad racing luck, Aldo never got the breaks that his twin-brother Mario did. Aldo labored in obscurity throughout his career, while Mario became a household name. The genes have been passed down on both sides of the family. Unfortunately, there seems to be a different type of Andretti curse at work here.
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5 Responses to "The Other Andretti"
Great article unfortunatley all to true!
Yeah – a nice read. I've wondered about John (and his cousin, Jeff) on-and-off for years. Now I have a little story 'bout him. Thanks.
This is a great blog George. I really enjoyed it and definately feel the same way. Thank you for the great read!
On top of every thing you have said, John is truly a very nice man. Thanks for writing the article. John is an extremely good driver but has lacked strong teams. I hope he does very well in the 2009 500.
[…] Andretti was always my favorite member of the Andretti clan. I wrote about that very topic back in 2009. He was a talented and versatile driver, but he was an even better person. Despite his […]


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Locks one tty, locks all ttys, and has a few more options as well. If you're a faithful follower of the aforementioned Unix Philosophy, you might prefer this in conjunction with dtach and dvtm.
I mentioned some document converters the other day, then found two or three more: catdoc, wordview and word2x. catdoc is still in the Arch repos and worked fine for me, but the other two were less successful.
I see that word2x is already five years out-of-date, so it may be that it's just past its prime. wordview is a wrapper for catdoc, but only spat out errors on my end. I probably needed something to make it work though.
I also spent a short time a day ago trying to build tmsnc — not that I could use it at all, because I don't have an MSN account. And it was a very short time too, because the source code (circa 2006) has trouble under Arch, or again I am missing a dependency I don't know about. In any case, I added a note to the AUR page for it. A screenshot would have been fun, but that's as far as I would have gotten.
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Sheikh Khalid Bin Abdul Rehman Al-Hussainan, aka Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti, was reportedly killed in a drone strike while eating breakfast in Pakistan.
A senior al-Qaida official and potential successor to the group's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed Friday morning in a Predator drone strike, according to reports on jihadi web forums and U.S. officials.
Sheikh Khalid Bin Abdul Rehman Al-Hussainan, aka Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti, was killed in Pakistan while eating breakfast, according to the accounts. The 46-year-old cleric was seen as part of the "very top tier" of al-Qaida's remaining leaders in the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden, according to one expert on the terror group.
The news was first announced on an al-Qaida web forum early Friday. "We celebrate to you the news of the martyrdom of the working scholar Shaykh Khalid al-Hussainan (Abu Zaid al-Kuwaiti) while eating his Suhoor (dawn time) meal, and we ask Allah to accept him in paradise," a post said.
Evan Kohlmann, an NBC News counterterrorism analyst, said al-Hussainan was at the forefront of a new wave of al-Qaida leadership.
"That's a big gap in the leadership," said Kohlmann, who is also a Justice Department consultant. "He was the last senior Al-Qaida leader in the Afghanistan-Pakistan area who was, one, from the Arabian Peninsula and, two, who had serious clerical credentials. Now there is no obvious publicly recognizable candidate left to succeed Zawahiri."
In recent years, al-Hussainan was seen in numerous al-Qaida videos offering religious training to the group's operatives. The videos were widely circulated by al-Shabab, al-Qaida's media wing. He also authored several books of religious thoughts.
The U.S. killed three other up-and-coming members of the terror group's next generation leadership in the months after bin Laden was killed in a raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by U.S. Navy SEALs in May 2011. Ilyas Kashmiri, the leader of a Pakistani group associated with al-Qaeda was killed June 3. Atiyah Abd-al Rahman, bin Laden's chief of staff, was killed on Aug. 22 and Ayman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who was a leader of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, was killed Sept. 30. US officials say that hints about their whereabouts were found in materials gathered by the Navy SEALs in the raid on bin Laden's compound.
Al-Hussainan is the highest ranking al-Qaida official to be killed since those leaders were killed.
Mike Leiter, the former director of the National Counter Terrorism Center and an NBC News analyst, said it's important to keep going after top officials to keep al-Qaida off balance.
"We are taking out the generation following those left from the 9-11 era leadership," Leiter said. "If you can get into this level of leadership consistently, it becomes very difficult for al-Qaida in Pakistan to become a serious threat to the homeland."
The fact that the attack was carried out by a Predator shows that the US intends to keep using the drones to kill al-Qaida, despite criticism from Pakistani officials and U.S. critics, said Roger Cressey, former deputy director of the White House counter terrorism center and an NBC News analyst.
"Anyone who believes that the drone program has run its course needs to know that people like al Kuwaiti are still out there," he said.
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We are starting our show tonight with a live report on the White House's reaction to the AIG bonuses and what they will be doing about the situation. The time line on this story is something of an embarrassment to the White House. We will explain. Also, we will talk with Montana Sen. John Tester, D-Mont., to get Congress' reaction to the bonuses. Also, we will get Sen. Tester's take on Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley's very controversial comments that the AIG executives should either resign or commit suicide.
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